Authors: 265
Books: 3,034
Poems & Short Stories: 3,123
Forum Members: 68,569
Forum Posts: 995,314
Teacher Accounts with student management and more.
Nation's history is embedded in portrait of a famous writer
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080109
Author:Patricia R. Hill
Book Review
Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe
By Philip McFarland
Grove, 328 pp., illustrated, $26
In the midst of the Civil War, the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon of Yale quipped that the country was inhabited by "saints, sinners and Beechers." Lyman Beecher's many children made their presence felt in the 19th century, none with greater effect than the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Their collective significance as shapers and exemplars of Victorian culture in America has been ratified by a raft of new books in recent decades, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies, Joan Hedrick's "Harriet ...
Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
Other Articles on Harriet Beecher Stowe
About Our Articles: We've partnered with Highbeam Research to provide these article excerpts for your research needs. However, due to copyright laws, we cannot publish the whole article. To view these articles in full length you'll need to use the link above to access the free trial at Highbeam.
- 1P2-15037624
| Art of Worldly Wisdom Daily In the 1600s, Balthasar Gracian, a jesuit priest wrote 300 aphorisms on living life called "The Art of Worldly Wisdom." Join our newsletter below and read them all, one at a time. |
Sonnet-a-Day Newsletter Shakespeare wrote over 150 sonnets! Join our Sonnet-A-Day Newsletter and read them all, one at a time. |
